[PATCH] x86/cpufeatures: Add EPT_AD feature bit

From: Peter Shier
Date: Wed Aug 01 2018 - 14:07:04 EST


From: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Some Intel processors have an EPT feature whereby the accessed & dirty bits
in EPT entries can be updated by HW. MSR IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP exposes the
presence of this capability.

This bit will also expose "ept_ad" in /proc/cpuinfo/$proc/flags if feature
is present.

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Shier <pshier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 5701f5cecd312..7fff98fa58558 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@

#define X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL ( 8*32+15) /* Prefer VMMCALL to VMCALL */
#define X86_FEATURE_XENPV ( 8*32+16) /* "" Xen paravirtual guest */
-
+#define X86_FEATURE_EPT_AD ( 8*32+17) /* Intel Extended Page Table access-dirty bit */

/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (EBX), word 9 */
#define X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE ( 9*32+ 0) /* RDFSBASE, WRFSBASE, RDGSBASE, WRGSBASE instructions*/
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index eb75564f2d257..c050cd6066af0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -465,14 +465,17 @@ static void detect_vmx_virtcap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
#define X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_VIRT_APIC 0x00000001
#define X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_EPT 0x00000002
#define X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_VPID 0x00000020
+#define x86_VMX_FEATURE_EPT_CAP_AD 0x00200000

u32 vmx_msr_low, vmx_msr_high, msr_ctl, msr_ctl2;
+ u32 msr_vpid_cap, msr_ept_cap;

clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_TPR_SHADOW);
clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_VNMI);
clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_FLEXPRIORITY);
clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_EPT);
clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_VPID);
+ clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_EPT_AD);

rdmsr(MSR_IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS, vmx_msr_low, vmx_msr_high);
msr_ctl = vmx_msr_high | vmx_msr_low;
@@ -487,8 +490,13 @@ static void detect_vmx_virtcap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
if ((msr_ctl2 & X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_VIRT_APIC) &&
(msr_ctl & X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS_TPR_SHADOW))
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_FLEXPRIORITY);
- if (msr_ctl2 & X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_EPT)
+ if (msr_ctl2 & X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_EPT) {
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_EPT);
+ rdmsr(MSR_IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP,
+ msr_ept_cap, msr_vpid_cap);
+ if (msr_ept_cap & x86_VMX_FEATURE_EPT_CAP_AD)
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_EPT_AD);
+ }
if (msr_ctl2 & X86_VMX_FEATURE_PROC_CTLS2_VPID)
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_VPID);
}
--
2.18.0.233.g985f88cf7e-goog